Handle or pull for water-closets



(No Model.)

W. H. BATE. HANDLE OR PULL FOR WATER OLOSETS, &c.

Patented Jan. 19.1886.

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NITED STATES .ATENT FFicE.

WALLACE H. BATE, OF MELROSE, MASSACHUSETTS.

HANDLE OR PULL FOR WATER-CLOSETS, 840.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 834,412, datedJanuary 19, 1886.

Application tiled March 30, 18:5.

5? all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALLAcE H. BATE, of Mclrose, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Handles or Pulls for Water-Closets, &c., of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to handles or pulls such as are used inwater-closets to operate a valve for the purpose of admitting water tothe bowl of the closet. These handles or pulls are suspended from theends of chains or wires, and are therefore capable of swinging, and asthey are usually located near a wall they are provided with projectingbeads of yielding rubber,which strike the wall and prevent injurythereto as well as noise,whioh would be occasioned by contact of theharder material of which the pulls or handles are made.

My invention consists in a pull or handle of this class made insections, between which a disk of rubber is clamped, the margin of saiddisk projecting outside the periphery of the handle and constituting acircumferential yielding guard or buffer, as Iwill now proceed todescribe.

The accompanying drawing represents a longitudinal section of myimproved pull.

ln carrying out my invention I make the body of the pull or handle intwo sections, 2 3, connected by a rod, 4:, which is screwed into nuts 56 at the opposite ends of the pull and passes through said sections.Between the sections 2 3 l interpose a disk, 7, of yielding rubber,having its margin enlarged and pro jecting outside of the sections, soas to form a peripheral buffer or ring, 8, which is held securely inplace by the clamping of the central portion of the disk between thesections 2 3, so that it cannot be detached without tear- S rial No.160,613. (No noilelj) ing it or separating the sections 2 3. Heretoforein pulls of this class the rubber guard has been a ring shrunk intoagroove formed in the periphery of the pull, and having no positiveconnection therewith. The ringistherefore liable to be disconnected fromthe pull andlost. Myimprovemententirely overcomes this objection.

The thickened or beaded edge 8 projects downwardly from the lowersurface of the disk, so that it does not collect dust and dirt, as itwould do if it projected upward y. The shoulder formed by the thickeningof the edge stands a little way from the periphery of the pull orhandle, so that a vacant space is left between said shoulder andperiphery, which enables the margin or head 8 to yield more freely thanif it rested directly against the rigid surface of the pull.

I claim 1. The improved pull or handle composed of the sections 2 3,connected by the rod and nuts, and the rubber disk clamped between saidsections, and having the projecting beaded edge standing out from therigid surface of the pull, forming a buffer extending entirely aronndthebody of the pull, as set forth.

2. The rubber disk 7, having the thickened or beaded margin 8 projectingdownwardly,

